Data chart surgery

Related to Monday‘s post, there is another way to use a poor quality data chart image in your slide. Crop out all text elements (axis labels, footers, titles, etc.) until you are just left with the lines/bars/columns themselves. Set the background color of your slide to the same color as the image and manually recreate the text labels (if necessary, many graph images contain huge footers and duplicate titles that you do not need).

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